The new themes, in my opinion, do nothing more than set back the look of Ubuntu a few years. Only one I agreed with him on. I had a custom panel on my laptop,

The new themes, in my opinion, do nothing more than set back the look of Ubuntu a few years. Only one I agreed with him on. I had a custom panel on my laptop, and the upgrade from 9.10 -> 10.04 and the new theme completely hosed the appearance -- including all of my application launchers retaining the old background. But one of the big selling points of Linux is that, upon installation, you have everything you need to work. The less that is installed by default the better, in every case. The big selling point of Linux (to me, anyway) is choice, not kitchen sink.